Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c5.s3.21

c5.s3.21

Since the above remarks about the date of the Kāmasūtra were placed before the public in the *Journal of the Department of Letters of the University of Calcutta* (Vol. IV), several scholars in India and Europe have expressed their opinion on the same subject. Of these, Prof. A. Banerji Sastri has examined the question in the *Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society*¹ and has arrived at almost the same conclusion as myself on mostly the same arguments, the only difference being that Prof. Sastri would place Vātsyāyana to "approximately the end of the third century A.D." while I have placed him about the middle. Prof. Sastri, moreover, differs from me in thinking that Bhāsa's drama, *Avimāraka*, was known to Vātsyāyana,² while I have expressed my doubts about it.³